video;

[crab]

[ after a week of constantly bumping into shit and having to get people to lead him around from place to place, karkat vantas has to resort to desperate measures. it's a struggle even getting the tablet to work for him, and at first, he doesn't seem to notice it's recording, continuing to frown and fiddle with it for a little while, before he begins to speak. ]

So. [ one might notice that his pupils are unusually dilated, only the faintest ring of grey iris visible around the edges. ] I'm going to make this brief, if just because I'm only half convinced this thing is actually recording and I'm not just yodeling into the void, but thanks to the astonishingly warm welcome one of your residents gave me, I'm blind. And as I'm not the resident No Eyes Mcgee among my social circle, and I've walked into enough door frames over the past week that I'll be very surprised if I haven't sustained permanent brain injury, I'm requesting that one of you make yourself some vague parody of useful and fix it.

[ there is a pause, before, reluctantly; ]

It was a dragon, if that makes any difference.

Comments

[lexiconning]

Were you...yelling at her?

[crab]

[ LONG PAUSE ]

Yes.

[lexiconning]

[ He's being spare the sight of such a squinting face right now. ]

At a dragon?

[crab]

Being a dragon doesn't give you a free pass for being informed when, in what ways and exactly how colossal a dumbshit you happen to be being at any given moment.

[lexiconning]

And you didn't expect her to curse you for it? Or, or you know, eat you. She might still eat you for all you know!

[crab]

I'm not going to let her intimidate me. [ even if she does terrify him. ]

[lexiconning]

You're so-- [ 'Stupid' but she huffs and let's that drop. Because okay maybe yelling at a dragon is secretly really hardcore. ] W-whatever. What are you gonna do if she comes back, though?

[crab]

[ no she was pretty much spot on with stupid. ]

Yell at her some more, probably. She deserves it a lot more than most people. Maybe if I do it enough I might be able to puncture the nigh impenetrable hide of her heinously massive hubris and she might approximate someone not completely awful in every way, shape and form.

1/2

[lexiconning]

She's gonna kill you.

[ Yep, and just like that the cool points are vanishing. ]

Oh Kodesh, you better not bring this thing coming where we sleep! Yell at her outside if you're gonna yell at a

[lexiconning]

[ moonbase...... .. dragon. ]

How big is... your curse dragon?

[crab]

[ he is not about to admit that he would rather she cast spells on him and/or want to kill him than have to tell her she used to be his adopted custodian. he appreciates the change in direction. ]

When she's in dragon form? Enormous enough that she can't transform up here without causing untold mayhem, destruction, and death.

[lexiconning]

Form? It - she, has other forms?!

[ He can probably hear the near heart attack she's having ]

[crab]

[ he can relate. ]

Yeah. I don't actually know how many, but I've seen human, and she's threatened me with a bear, so.